El país que entregó las cárceles a sus pandilleros
The Latin American Program's report "Drug Trafficking Organizations in Central America: Transportistas, Mexican Cartels and Maras", written by former Latin AMerican Program Fellow Steven Dudley, is cited in this article on gangs in El Salvador. This article is in Spanish.
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Dice Steven Dudley, periodista y consultor estadounidense: “Mantener agrupados a los líderes y a una gran parte de los soldados más incondicionales tuvo un efecto adicional, en especial después de que el Estado asignó centros penales diferentes a cada pandilla. Los líderes tenían más tiempo para organizar y planear estrategias y actividades (…), y las pandillas incursionaron en nuevos delitos, específicamente la extorsión y el secuestro, actividades que se realizan casi exclusivamente desde las cárceles”. (Dudley, Steven. Drug Trafficking Organizations in Central America: Transportistas, Mexican Cartels and Maras. En Woodrow Wilson Center Reports on the Americas #29, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, Estados Unidos, 2011).
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Steven S. Dudley's chapter "Drug Trafficking Organizations in Central America: Transportistas, Mexican Cartels and Maras" can be read in full in the Latin American Program publication Organized Crime in Central America: The Northern Triangle, available here.
About the Author
Steven Dudley
Co-Director, InSight Crime
Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime and a senior research fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In 2020, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), a winner of the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Dudley is the former bureau chief of the Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Miami for National Public Radio and the Washington Post, among others. He holds a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
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